“…Overall, Gadd45a, Gadd45b and Gadd45g have been implicated in cell cycle arrest (Beadling et al, 1993;Hollander et al, 1999;Wang et al, 1999;Zhang et al, 1999), DNA repair (Smith et al, 1994;Vairapandi et al, 1996), apoptosis (Harkin et al, 1999;Vairapandi et al, 2000;Azam et al, 2001;Takekawa et al, 2002;Yoo et al, 2003), cell survival (Smith et al, 1996;De Smaele et al, 2001;Zazzeroni et al, 2003;Papa et al, 2004;Gupta et al, 2005), genomic stability (Hollander et al, 1999), inflammatory response and innate immunity (Lu et al, 2001;Yang et al, 2001;Lu et al 2004). Gadd45 proteins have been shown to stimulate the p38-c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathways in response to stress situations and thereby sensitize cells for growth arrest, apoptosis or survival (Takekawa and Saito, 1998;Harkin et al, 1999;De Smaele et al, 2001;Lu et al, 2001;Hildesheim et al, 2002;Yoo et al, 2003).…”